Stove-shelf



J. Z. BROWN.

STOVE SHELF.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I, 19.16.

Patented Aug. 15, 1916.

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QFFTE JOHN Z. BROWN, OF HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA.

STOVE-SHELF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented Aug. 15, 1916.

Application filed March 1, 1916. Serial No. 81,429.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN Z. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at High Point, in the county of Guilford and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove- Shelves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to movable shelves or supports, more particularly to devices of this character adapted to be employed in connection with a cooking range, or stove, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction and increase the efliciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a. simply constructed device including a standard adapted to be detachably coupled to a support such as a cook stove or range, and a shelf swingingly coupled to the standard and removable therefrom when required.

\Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain" novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conventional cook stove with the improvement applied; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the improved device; Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of a portion of the supporting standard; Fig. 4 is a perspective view from beneath of a portion of the arm of the shelf including the pivot by which the arm is swingingly coupled to the standard.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device is more particularly adapted for use in connection with cook stoves or ranges to hold cooking utensils, receptacles for food and the like, and may be applied without structural change to cook stoves of various forms, and for the purpose of illustration a conventional cook stove is shown including the top 10 having the pro jecting rim 11 of the usual form.

The improved device includes a standard, represented as a whole at 12, and preferably formed with a laterally enlarged foot portion 13, and a U-shaped arm 14 extending therefrom and having a clamp screw 15 op erating through its free end and adapted to engage beneath the projecting rim 11 of the stove, as illustrated in Fig. 2. By this means the standard 12 is rigidly coupled to the stove and may be detached therefrom, or moved from place to place upon the stove. At its upper end the standard 12 is enlarged into a head 16 having a circular edge and with an upwardly opening socket 17. The upper face of the head 16 is flat, or extending at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the standard.

The shelf portion of the improved device is represented as a whole at 18 and includes an upwardly directed stop rib 19 which is spaced some distance inwardly from the edge of the shelf leaving a flange-like outer portion 20 beyond the rib. The rib 19 serves the two-fold purpose of a stop to prevent the displacement of dishes or other articles placed upon the shelf, and likewise as means for preventing the displacement of a cover 21. v

Projecting from the shelf 18 at one side is an arm 22 which is turned downwardly and terminates in a lateral head 23 having a. depending rim 24 adapted to engage over the circular edge of the head 16 of the standard 12, as shown in Fig. 2. Depending from the center of the enlargement 23 is a stud or pin 25 which engages in the socket 17. By this means the shelf is rotatably mounted upon the standard and effectually prevented from lateral displacement thereon, the flat lower face of the projection 23 bearing upon the flat upper face of the head 16 of the standard. The depending rib 24 of the projection 23 engages rotatably over the circular edge of the head 16 and coacts with the socket 17 and stud 25 to insure a firm coupling between the arm 22 and the standard 12, while at the same time leaving the arm free to rotate relative to the standard. It will be noted that the shelf 18 is at one side of the standard, consequently a strong lateral strain is exerted upon the standard, which is offset by the form of the joint between the standard andthe arm. The relatively large head 16 and the projection 23 coact to offset any tendency of the shelf to tilt downwardly when weight is applied.

The standard 12, together with the clamp device 14, will preferably be formed of one piece of malleable iron or steel, while the shelf 18 and its arm 22 including the enlargement 23 and stud 25 will likewise be formed of one piece of malleable ironor steel, while the cover 21 will preferably be of sheet metal.

The parts will be as light as possible consistent with the strains to which they will be subjected, and may be of any required size or proportion.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A device of the class described comprising a standard adapted to be attached to a support and having a laterally enlarged head ineluding an outer circular face and with an upwardly opening socket centrally of the head, and a shelf having an arm depending therefrom at one side, said arm enlarged laterally at the lower end and having an annular depending flange to engage the circular face of the standard head enlargement and with a stud engaging in the socket of the same.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JOHN 2. BROWN. 11. 8.]

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Washington, I). G. 

